Question

I am having the strangest issue with a site i am developing. On the homepage i have a flash slide show which displays fine in IE. However it does not appear in Firefox but instead leaves a white space.

I am using SWFObject to display the flash. I knows its at least firing as the holding image is removed. However if i right click on the white area i get an HTML context menu not a flash menu which suggests its not even writing the flash object to the page let alone loading the flash SWF file.

If i save the source of the homepage to a static HTML and upload that to the server it works fine.

Could this be anything to do with the file encoding or http headers?

I’ve tried so many things like removing content, JS, CSS etc. The fact that a static version of the file works but the server driven ones does not is driving me mad.

The server is running Joomla CMS.

The code is:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">swfobject.embedSWF("/flash/loader.swf", "flashContent", "960", "310", "9.0.0", "/flash/expressInstall.swf");</script>

HTML Code:

<div class="middle" id="flashContent">
<img class="panelBgImage" src="/images/main/Home.jpg" title="Home"/>
</div>

A temporary version of the site can be seen @ http://slc.synterax.com/ (Available until 06/08/2009)

Thanks in advance

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having the script in the head portion of the page certainly fixed it for me. However i have seen problems in the past with flash and firefox and swf. the only way i got around it was to reinstall flash 🙁

i take it works fine in the other browsers?

Answer 1

I’ve had a similar issue for the past day and a half, and I’ve found the answer. The swfobject.embedSWF should be in the HEAD portion of the document (I’m guessing that is not possible for Joomla). If you can’t move it there, there is a workaround here. You can add this line of code:

swfobject.switchOffAutoHideShow();

just before your swfobject.embedSWF